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After signing four-year multimedia deals with Sky Sports and Eurosport in recent weeks, Major League Soccer "is eyeing additional deals around the globe, including in Latin and South America, Africa, and Asia," according to Ian Thomas of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. MLS Business Ventures President/Managi...

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L.A., Chicago, N.Y. and San Francisco are the only U.S. cities that should be fighting it out to host the 2024 Olympics, according to Wasserman Media Group Chair & CEO Casey Wasserman, who also diplomatically questioned whether Jay-Z will be in the sports business for the long haul. Wasserman sa ...

MLB Int'l Business Operations Senior VP Paul Archey said that the Japan All-Star Series, featuring all-star teams from MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball, could resume as early as this year. While the series, which started back in ’86, was never officially canceled, it has not been played si ...

Two Russian lawmakers "have responded to calls" made by U.S. senators for FIFA to prevent Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup by urging FIFA President Sepp Blatter "to expel the United States from this summer’s World Cup in Brazil over the U.S.’s foreign policy," according to Edward C ...

Liga MX side Puebla team captain Luis Miguel Noriega "made public the debt that the club has owed to its players for more than three months," according to Edgar González of LA AFICION. Noriega said on behalf of the players, "We want to express our concern regarding the current situation in wh ...

Queensland, Australia "could host a professional American football game," with Premier Campbell Newman "inviting NFL chiefs to tour facilities" in the Australian state, according to the AAP. Newman said that the NFL "bigwigs will visit Brisbane within the next month to tour Suncorp Stadium, which wo ...

U.S. investment firm Baron Capital "has bought nearly a quarter of all publicly-traded shares" in N.Y.-listed ManU, according to the AP. In '12, ManU owners the Glazer family sold 10% of its holding in the club via a stock listing. A filing Monday on the Securities and Exchange Commission showed Bar ...

There are "currently no certainties regarding the futures" of Liga MX side Queretaro and Mexican second division club Delfines del Carmen, which are both owned by Amado Yáñez, according to Héctor González Villalba of LA AFICION. Yáñez's company, Oceanografia ...

U.S. automaker Ford will end its 21-year sponsorship with the Champions League after the final in Lisbon, Portugal in May, UEFA announced. The partnership dates back to the '92-93 season, and saw the launch of several new Ford models, including the new Ford Mustang, to be unveiled in Lisbon ( UEFA ) ...

IMG Productions has once again been appointed by the Caribbean Premier League to produce TV coverage of the second franchise-based Twenty20 cricket tournament, which begins on July 10 with the final scheduled for Aug. 16. IMG, which produced last year's inaugural event, will produce live covera ...

ManU is "set to announce a world-record kit deal" worth more than £600M ($1B), according to Simon Mullock of the London DAILY MIRROR. The deal will see ManU make more than £60M ($100M)-a-year "over the course of a decade-long agreement." That is "almost double the current best kit manufa ...